- artist:Lubolo Project
- featured artist:jmacGarin, Javier Paxariño, Lucía Caramés, Jaime Cano, Tamboriles del Barrio Sur...
- release year:2003
- style(s):Afro, Electronic
- country:Uruguay
- formats:Book, CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Sneo Mestizaje Projects
- label:SNEO MESTIZAJE
Lubolo Project: New candombe
Adoon Bantú (bantu slave)
In the eighteenth century thousands of black slaves arrived in America. The majority were Bantus. In Uruguay, as in other American countries, they developed their own culture, mixture of religions, beliefs and music. That is how the candombe that lives on these days was born - the rhythm of Latin drums with an echo of Africa.
And it is in their own dialect that the word lubolo means white painted black. And it is also the essence of this project that pays tribute to the thousands of Bantus who today, in Africa, are still slaves. Blacks and whites (with their faces painted black, their souls black, whites in blacks' shoes) join together to create a new candombe, in which electronic sounds merge with ancestral rhythms
and the old dances are transformed into contemporary multimedia dance.